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Making aliyah is never easy, let alone in the age of coronavirus.

What if you find yourself at this point in your journey living alone? Strangely enough, our assignment has the potential of being the most exciting of all: piecing our life story together like an immense three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.

Passover Freedom in Israel

"And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times as strong, like the light of seven days, on the day that Hashem bandages the injury of His people and heals the wound of his blow."

I will ask him, silently, to take with him hugs and kisses to my mother and father and brother, two time zones and thousands of miles away.

We know that many people carry the virus without getting overly sick, or without manifesting any symptoms at all. This might have saved economies that are now crumbling under the strain of the minimized work force.

But can we teach about freedom when the government tells us that we have to stay in our houses and we can’t have the huge family gatherings we have every year? Passover freedom

But the United Nations made a special call out for the young women in Africa when older white men in Europe are dying by the minute.

The process of forming the government has so far been enormously expensive, with three elections at an estimated cost of 12 billion shekels. Keep in mind also, that for the past year the legislators have done essentially nothing, while drawing their salaries.

Thanks for sharing your opinion that the COVID19 virus did not originate in China, that it was developed by the U.S. who released the virus in order to destroy the world economy.

The anti-Zionist, anti-state community turns a deaf ear to government pronouncements, whether they come from the Health Department of the Chief Rabbinate, which they consider [to be a body] of Reform rabbis.

Federal bureaucracy has slowed down the process for both distributing existing masks and making new ones. There are plenty of companies eager to make masks, without any Wartime Production Act pressure. They just need a streamlined process that will clear as many of the barriers and delays out of the way.

Will fear of Coronavirus do what years of negotiations and attempts at compromise have not, and make the Haredim cooperate with the state?

Gantz is trying to hard to push a very left wing government onto Bibi, and it may backfire on him.

Blaming Israel for the condition of the Gazan people is getting tired

Sometimes people wonder what Israel does for the United States. There are tons of examples including sharing technology, intelligence, counterterrorism training and methods, advances in medicine and so much more. The Teva donation is just the latest.

Who are the winners and the losers of the election crisis, and what did we learn from it?

If you want to build a skyscraper, then the one-story building can no longer remain. You have to destroy it.

Blue&White will lose if they try to force Amir Peretz to give up his cozy new chair as Knesset Speaker, and Peretz has his own long-term agenda.

For Blue&White, running the country is secondary to getting rid of Netanyahu.

Be full of joy – yes, real “simcha” – especially now during these challenging days.

When the rules were first announced, many people felt that PM Netanyahu and his advisors in the Health Ministry were overreacting, but as the number of cases grows, most Israelis have come around to the idea that tough measures are needed.

Some far-left celebrities even accused Israel and Donald Trump's Jewish son-in-law from developing the virus so that they could get rich from selling the vaccine.

A pilgrimage festival under current circumstances will prove an epidemiological nightmare.

The system is what is preventing us from having a functional democracy, not Bibi Netanyahu.

A complete Times piece on Israel must have #FakeNews in addition to #AlternativeFacts and inversions

We didn’t realize that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been suspended at Ann Arbor and wonder if other Amendments like the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery will be negated by Michigan U’s student censors.

Tonight at candle lighting time, Jews in Israel and around the world will go out to their gardens, porches, and windows to sing Lecha Dodi and Shalom Aleichem together.

Assuming that the name of your organization reflects a sincere desire to see the two parties negotiate a happy ending to 1400 years of Islamic animosity towards Jews, maybe Peace Now might want to look into the historical refusal by the PA to negotiate with Israeli Prime Ministers and U.S. Presidents.

My wife, who works harder than I do, wants me to emphasize the positive changes that the health crisis has inspired.